Weapon of mass destruction?

A designer clutch-purse with spikes at the end: A must for every Fembot, available at your nearest Smets concept store! Now in Belgium as well as Luxembourg!


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Have your cake in a box...

...and eat it, too! It's that time of year again, when cakes in boxes invade Belgian grocery stores!

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RIP J.R. Ewing, the one we loved to hate.

Happy Halloween

A couple of cashiers at neighborhood Delhaize dressed in scary costumes, spooky display outside neighborhood Italian eatery, the Halloween spirit is alive and well in Belgium!

Flemish-language TV offerings

When Flemish-language TV channels are not showing the worst of made-in-America programs or movies of the week, they specialize in silly home-grown reality shows like 'Help Mijn Mann is Klusser' (roughly translated as My Hubby is a Klutz), 'Komen Eten' and 'Astrid in Wunderland' about a Flemish-Valley Girl wannabe in Hollywood. Thank goodness the commercials are entertaining, led by the triple-scream one for Zalando!

No dogs allowed

On certain streets, it's not enough to have no parking signs -- Belgians have to confuse people by putting up signs like these -- one on each side of the street to regulate alternating parking times. Note that on the 15th of the month, cars must be moved from the permitted to the prohibited side of the street between 7:30 p.m. and 8 p.m.!

[Photos Copyright PTC Inc.] Even worse is a sign like the one below (mainly found in the countryside), which indicates that parking is allowed on the side of the road with uneven house numbers from the 1st-15th of the month and on the side with even numbered addresses from the 16th-31st) -- same changeover period applies, but still! Whatever happened to good, old-fashioned clarity?!

The little engine that could

Spotted one of these puppies -- known as a Renault Twizzy -- in Woluwe St.-Lambert today -- makes Smart cars seem like SUVs!